1. Helping Verbs

2. Helping Verbs Song (sung to the tune of “Jingle Bells”)
Helping verbs, helping verbs, There are twenty-three: AM, IS, ARE, WAS and WERE BEING, BEEN, and BE….oh!
HAVE, HAS, HAD, DO, DOES, DID, SHALL, WILL, SHOULD, and WOULD.
There are five more helping verbs: MAY, MIGHT, MUST, CAN, COULD.

3. Helping Verbs Song (Click Image)

4. Definition: helps the main verb express action or a state of being. (
Definition: helps the main verb express action or a state of being. (*labeled yellow)
Examples:
- can speak will be learning should have been fed

5. Main verb + helping verb(s) = verb phrase.
Examples:
- Many students can speak Spanish.
- I will be learning about helping verbs today.

7. Some words can be used as both helping verbs and main verbs.
- I do enjoy the movies.
Main Verb:
- I will do the dishes.

8. Sometimes a verb phrase is interrupted by another part of speech.
Examples:
- Students should not forget their homework.
- Did you call your friends this weekend?

9. The word NOT and its contraction, -n’t, are adverbs --------------
Adverbs are NOT part of Verb Phrases!
Example:
- Students should not forget their homework.

10. Helping Verbs Song (sung to the tune of “Jingle Bells”)
Helping verbs, helping verbs, There are twenty-three: AM, IS, ARE, WAS and WERE BEING, BEEN, and BE….oh!
HAVE, HAS, HAD, DO, DOES, DID, SHALL, WILL, SHOULD, and WOULD.
There are five more helping verbs: MAY, MIGHT, MUST, CAN, COULD.

11. Practice Helping Verbs
Turn to page 363 in green, grammar textbooks